Role synopsis
The senior workover engineer is responsible for the planning, execution, and optimization of workover and completion operations, ensuring safety, efficiency, and adherence to industry best practices. This role involves engineering design, operational support, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement of well intervention activities. This position is responsible for the delivery of safe, effective workover and completion programs for the field development plan. The senior workover engineer must display confidence and the ability to guide and mentor workover engineers on the team. The role requires working closely in a multicultural environment that involves daily liaison and communication with workover delivery team leads, well services, international service providers, and contractors and providing support to the subsurface team. As a technical expert and leader, the senior engineer collaborates with subsurface, drilling, production, and workover delivery teams to develop and implement effective workover and completion programs. The role also provides guidance to junior engineers, ensuring knowledge transfer and operational excellence. The senior workover engineer will report directly to the workover engineering lead.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide engineering experience, expertise and leadership to the workover department, ensuring the highest standards in the development of workover & completion programmes
- Lead with a strong commitment to HSE, ensuring compliance with company policies, industry regulations, and well control procedures
- Responsible for the workover programme to meet the SOR well objectives safely and efficiently
- Responsible for the highest standard workover/completion programmes generated by assigned workover delivery engineers, including adequate well history reviews
- Identify and coordinate pre-workover activities by wells services
- Lead the QA/QC process for technical calculations, ensuring program accuracy and efficiency
- Daily engineering and troubleshooting support to the workover/completions operations, including but not limited to water shut-offs/zonal isolation, ESP Installation, water injection, wellbore cleanout, cased hole fishing, and well integrity repair/intervention
- Mentor and coach workover engineers, fostering continuous learning and skill development
- Team SPA for key service provider contract(s): Liaising with service providers and contractors regarding inventory, equipment and utilisation of services
- Prepare, conduct and represent workover engineering at multi-disciplined pre-workover meetings
- QA/QC of EOWR and technical reports as required
- Provide technical and engineering support to the delivery team and well-site leaders
- Offer recommendations for operational improvements, plus implement optimization and efficiency opportunities
- Participate in quarterly contractor performance reviews, offering recommendations for improvement
- Track workover KPIs (NPT, cost efficiency, safety compliance, equipment performance)
- Identify and implement new technologies and best practices to improve efficiency and reduce costs
- Provide input on contractor performance and service quality, ensuring vendors meet technical and operational expectations
Requirements
- Earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- Minimum 10-15 years of hands-on experience in well site operations with a major international operator, particularly in workover, completions, or well intervention activities. Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Workover/Completions Engineer with at least 5 years as a Workover Site Leader (WSL) or 5 years in a high leadership position
- Experience with land rig workover operations and planning, including water shutoff, water injection, fishing, fracturing, stimulation, ESP operations, and complex workover projects in challenging environments
- Valid IADC or IWCF supervisory-level Well Control certification
- Demonstrate a Proven track record of introducing and applying successful implementation of new technology to workovers/completions
- Good communication and mentoring skills are required to be commensurate with the above job role
- Strong team player with exceptional leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrable experience in managing rig and service contractors on multiple rig operations
- Workover Engineering in oil/gas field development/rehabilitation projects
- Aptitude to innovate and be open to new ideas
- Flexible approach to work
- Proficiency in workover program development, risk assessments, and troubleshooting
- Strong decision-making, problem-solving, and crisis-management skills
- Experience in contractor and stakeholder management
- Deep understanding of the HSE policies, regulatory standards, and safety leadership
- Experience in conducting incident investigations and safety audits
- Proficient in safe working practices and good oilfield practices
- Be able to demonstrate knowledge of the oil industry
- Strong written and oral English
Rotation
14/14
*Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.